23 People. Opposing Views on Guns. One Surprising Outcome. – BJ Campbell and Dr. Eric Fleegler

BJ Campbell, a Second Amendment advocate, and Dr. Eric Fleegler, a physician and researcher focused on preventing gun violence, were part of a year-long experiment—two dozen people with radically different views on guns meeting month after month to find common ground on policy. It sounds impossible. At first, even they thought it would fail. But something surprising happened: they were able to create a set of gun policies they could all stand behind. How did they do it? ABOUT GUESTS BJ Campbell is a gun owner and Second Amendment advocate who writes for Recoil Magazine and Open Source Defense (https://hwfo.substack.com/p/after-action-report-bridging-the). Dr. Eric Fleegler is a pediatric emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who researches gun violence prevention and firearm-related injury (https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/23684/eric-fleegler). Learn more about the project and the policies they agreed on - http://bridgethedividenow.org/ CHAPTERS (0:00) Introduction (0:39) A Bold Gun Policy Experiment (1:19) Meet BJ Campbell and Dr. Eric Fleegler (2:06) Expectations and Skepticism (3:48) Dr. Fleegler on Real Compromise (4:42) Background Check Exemptions (6:58) Campbell's Trust Moment on Red Flags (9:08) Humanizing and Building Bonds (12:06) Hope and Limits of Scaling (13:28) Why the Effort Matters (15:02) Conclusion